Largest-Ever Warship Commissioned By US Navy As Tension Climbs In Asia

On Saturday, the United States Navy commissioned a 13 billion dollar aircraft carrier named the USS Gerald R Ford. In a commissioning ceremony for the massive vessel, President Donald Trump said, “Wherever this vessel cuts through the horizons, our allies will rest easy and our enemies will shake with fear because everyone will know that America is coming and America is coming strong.” The Ford joins the US military arsenal in the face of new challenges in an increasingly tense North Asia. The United States, still the world’s preeminent military power, already fields large numbers of technologically advanced weapons in the Pacific. Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the more than 340,000 US troops in the Pacific, said in a February speech, that the US Pacific Command “is prepared to fight tonight with the best technology of any force on the planet.”
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